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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 20 > Lawyer, journalist shot dead in Moscow

Lawyer, journalist shot dead in Moscow


January 20, 2009

MOSCOW — A masked assassin with a silencer on his gun crept up behind Stanislav Markelov, a human-rights lawyer with a penchant for underdogs, and shot him dead in broad daylight Monday. A freelance reporter with Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper also was killed in the....

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